Featured Speakers
Tristan Harris
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Center for Humane Technology
Stephanie Mehta
Editor-in-chief, Fast Company
Neela Montgomery
Chief Executive Officer, Orveon
Luis Alberto Moreno
President, Inter-American Development Bank
Alaa Murabit
UN High-Level Commissioner: Health Employment & Economic Growth; UN SDG Global Advocate, United Nations
L. Rafael Reif
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Reuss
President, General Motors | Judge for GM Prize on Circular Economy
Wendy Schmidt
President, Schmidt Family Foundation
Marjorie Yang
Chairman, Esquel Group
Speakers
David Abel
Reporter, Boston Globe
Lewis Akenji
Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute
Aziz Alghunaim
Co-founder, Tarjimly
Jenny Anderson
Senior Reporter, Quartz
Natalya Bailey
CEO and Co-founder, Accion Systems
Carolina Bastidas
Research Scientist, MIT SeaGrant
Ayah Bdeir
Founder & CEO, LittleBits
Elizabeth Bear
Writer
Anna Bertmar Khan
Acting Director, Program, Dubai Cares
Eveline Buchatskiy
Managing Partner, One Way Ventures
Camille Caron
Director Education & Sustainability, 3D Print, HP, Inc.
Noëlla Coursaris Musunka
Founder and Director, Malaika
Andrew Cunningham
Global Advisor, Education, Aga Khan Foundation
Betelhem Dessie
Project Manager, iCog - Anyone Can Code & Project Advisor, Solve IT!, iCog Labs
Dr. Davina Durgana
Senior Statistician, Walk Free Foundation, an initiative of Minderoo Foundation, Report Co-Author, Global Slavery Index
Hildreth England
Assistant Director, PlusMinus, Open Agriculture - MIT Media Lab
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Staff Writer, Greentech Media
Andrew Freedman
Science Editor, Axios
Pape Gaye
President & CEO, IntraHealth International
Tina George
Global Co-Lead, Delivery Systems, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice, World Bank Group
Angela Gichaga
CEO, Financing Alliance for Health
Fengmin Gong
Head of Didi Labs North America & Vice President of Security Strategy, Didi Chuxing
Guadalupe Gonzalez
Journalist, Inc.
Marina Gorbis
Executive Director, Institute for the Future
Matt Haggman
Former Miami Director, Knight Foundation
Robert Hakiza
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID)
Jade Hameister
Polar Explorer
Hala Hanna
Executive Director, MIT Solve
Karen Hao
Artificial Intelligence Reporter, MIT Technology Review
Linda Henry
Managing Director, The Boston Globe
Lesley Patricia Holst
Initiatives Lead, Learning through Play in Early Childhood, LEGO Foundation
Nina Huntemann
Director of Academics and Research, edX
Joichi "Joi" Ito
Director of the MIT Media Lab, Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danielle Joseph
Investor, Closed Loop Ventures
Lyla June
Poet, Musician, Human Ecologist, Public Speaker, Community Organizer
Sarah King
Director, Global Learning Lab
Priya Lakhani
Founder and CEO, CENTURY Tech
Shirley Leung
Interim Editorial Page Editor, Boston Globe
Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Dr. Karen Lord
Writer
Ernest Madu
Chairman and Founder, Heart Institute of the Caribbean and HIC Heart Hospital
Namya Mahajan
Managing Director, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
S. Atyia Martin
CEO & Founder, All Aces, Inc.
Terence Mauri
Founder, Hack Future Lab
Ceasar L. McDowell
Professor of the Practice, Civic Design; Associate Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Associate Director, Center for Constructive Communication, MIT
Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe
Co-Founder and CEO, Motsepe Foundation
Stacey Moraa Ondimu
Country Director, Kenya, Moringa School
Chinny Ogunro
Managing Director, Africa Health Holdings
Carlo Ratti Ph.D.
Director, MIT SENSEable Cities Lab, Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati
Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Initiative
Elizabeth Roscoe
Executive Director, Western Union Foundation
Deb Roy
Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Cortico
Tate Ryan-Mosley
Editorial Research Manager, MIT Technology Review
Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning, MIT
Laura Schulz
Professor of Cognitive Science, MIT
Donald F. Schwarz
Senior Vice President, Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Tenzin Seldon
Founder, Kinstep
Sona Shah
CEO and Co-Founder, Neopenda
Venan Sondo
Co-Founder and Managing Director, CHAiNT Afrique LTD
Jennifer Strong
Reporter
Max Tegmark Ph.D.
Professor, MIT Dept. of Physics & Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
Rosemarie T. Truglio
Senior Vice President, Curriculum and Content, Sesame Workshop
Miss Patrisse Vasek
Undergraduate - Bachelor's Degree in Natural Sciences, Oglala Lakota College - Math, Science, and Technology
United States
Marijke Wijnroks
Chief of Staff, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Marcus Winter
Head of Division, Reinsurance Development, Munich Re
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